Water

Balfour Beatty is at the heart of efforts to ensure that water supplies and waste water are better managed and that communities and economies are protected from the effects of flooding.

Networks, metering, treatment facilities and supply

Our operations cover the whole life-cycle of networks, including clean and waste water mains, metering, treatment facilities and other essential infrastructure. Working closely with the supply chain, we employ industry-leading approaches like BIM and offsite construction to bring cost and time efficiency to projects.

We also provide reactive and planned maintenance, and upgrades on non-infrastructure assets across the UK.

How do we manage a water mains supply?

How do you maintain and repair the Victorian water mains running through Central London? The expert engineers in our Gas & Water business have the answer.
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Coastal and flood prevention

Balfour Beatty has been active in the flood and coastal sector for over 20 years. In this time, we have done more than 70 schemes across the country, including in Scotland and Wales.

This amounts to more than £0.6bn of work with many of the key customers in the sector, including the Environment Agency and local councils.

We're currently working on coastal defences in Blackpool, Redcar, Dymchurch, Selsey, Weston-Super-Mare and on the north Wales coast. These schemes include hard defences, such as concrete and rock armour and softer defences including beach nourishment and recycling. We have also constructed flood reservoirs and flood embankments, some of which were for compensatory habitats in the Humber Estuary.

With experience on the coast, we have become the experts and are far ahead of any other contractor. Indeed, our pre-cast concrete in second to none and we are known in the industry for this.

We operate the only PPP coastal project in the world at Pevensey, which will be funded by Defra for another 10 years and we have had a continuous period of work on the Fylde coast for 15 years. In this time, we have built coastal seawalls for Blackpool and Wyre Councils valued at more than £150m and skilled-up a number of local employees as well as our own graduates.

We’re extremely proud to be a supporter of @noisycricketorg’s #HIFuture project, helping to reduce homelessness in the Greater Manchester area by offering employment opportunities to those most in need. https://t.co/mvvDSDAExk